EDITORIAL

Welcome to the January issue of 2DArtist and Happy New Year! We hope you enjoyed the festive break and that youâ€˜re looking forward to an exciting year with 2DArtist as the new year brings new and exciting tutorial series from some very talented artists.

This month's awesome cover image is by Ignacio Bazan Lazcano, created for a brand new, two-part tutorial in which Ignacio illustrates a step-by-step guide to creating a detailed seaport scene in Photoshop.

In the final installment from our Weapon Design series, Daniel Baker demonstrates how to create harpoon and spear-based weapons. Over the course of this series our artists have been demonstrating how to design different weapon concepts to fit various situations and environments for the games industry. Daniel talks us through the design and concept stage of his science fiction harpoon, and continues to demonstrate how to color and final touches to help you in your work and creation of new concepts.

Our second new tutorial series is Designing New Worlds, which will take a comprehensive look at the aim of creating a world from a concept perspective. This chapter and the following five will investigate the progresses and techniques that can be employed to create an extraordinary society, from the initial idea to the finished image. Gerhard Mozsi begins the series by demonstrating how to design and paint characters.

We have reached the penultimate chapter in our Custom Brushes for Character series, in which our artists are showing us how to create different custom brushes to texture a character. In this chapter Bart Tiongson starts by designing his Yeti, and continues to demonstrate how to use different brushes to add detail and texture to the character.

The excitement doesn't end there, as we also have a Making Of by Ali Kiani Amin, and a gallery full of stunning images by Liam Peters, Andrey Belarus, Soheil Danesh and many more!

REVIEWS

The pdf of this mag was great. Very inspiring and usefull stuff in it. (Posted on 03/02/2014)

For a great 2D and feed your eyes Review by German Yesid

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The good choosing images are a escellent inspiration to me; and all content inside this great magazine allow me figure out how to improve my own techniques. Excellent Magazine!. (Posted on 03/05/2013)

Awesome Review by Andreas

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A really inspiring issue with a lot of great content. A really interesting interview, impressive and beautiful images, together with tons of excellent tips and tutorials. (Posted on 14/04/2013)

Awesome Review by manuel

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This magazine pdf is awesome, but it needs a few more pages. I was addicted right away and i also like the price of these bad boys. (Posted on 05/02/2013)

Awesome! Review by Andrea

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Fantastic issue, the interview with Andree Wallin is very interesting! (Posted on 04/02/2013)

Outstanding Review by Jesus

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This Magazine is amazing, its always good to read the monthly interviews with the industry pros, that has to be my favorite section of the magazine, and the interview of this month with Andree Wallin doesn't disappoint. The main workshop the 'sea port' is just OUTSTANDING, it explains throughout out the why of its interesting composition and sets you up with a good foundation for an amazing painting. (Posted on 04/02/2013)